Word: dust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rowe and Greenless decided that the presence of the false stairway denoted the presence of a true entrance not far away. Brushes were applied to the rock nearby and every particle of dust and mud was removed. Nothing was found. Then knives were procured and the surface was scraped. Finally the efforts of the workers were rewarded, by the finding of a block of grey limestone set into the same kind of rock in the platform. The block was fitted so carefully that the edge of a razor could not enter the cracks which were all but invisible even after...
Apparently the chamber was originally filled with wooden furniture. The 59 centuries which Professor Flinders Petrie believes to have past since the sealing of the tomb have caused the wood to fall into dust leaving only the golden brackets and ivory inlay intact...
Spattering flurries of lead flying through city streets in war-time would constitute an obvious menace to public health. But what if in peacetime city streets were filled with clouds of lead, not bullets, but fine powdery particles mixed in with the whirling gutter-dust, lead deposited by the exhaust-pipes of motors burning gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead (1:1,500) to eliminate motor "knocking"? Would that constitute a health menace...
...brave "Teteléstai": I am no King, have laid no kingdoms waste, Taken no princes captive, led no triumphs Of weeping women through long watts of trumpets; Say, rather, I am no one or an atom. . . . . . . Well, what then? Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial...
Efforts so far have been directed generally toward taking the curse of pedantic dust off valuable and fruitful knowledge by stifling the preparatory school distinction between master and pupil; and the resourses that lie in contact between students dealing in the same fields have been neglected to some extent, although the example of European universities proves that, properly directed, such contacts are as fertile as any between the student and even the most sympathetic tutor. The group meetings in which overworked tutors take refuge are, as yet, the only places where undergraduates of the same intellectual tastes, as indicated...